Mac Folklore Radio
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsComfort food for Macintosh users of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
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Jean-Louis Gassée Interview (1998)
May 14, 2024 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MBA snapshot of Be’s direction in 1998 post-Apple merger talks and pre-bankruptcy. Original text by Henry Bortman. Selected Jean-Louis Gassée quotes: “Who could have put a date on not getting fired for using Linux?” “One of my role models is Michael Dell. […] He looks like a sage in the industry now, but he didn’t always look like this.” “The simple fact is, today if you write a line of C++ code, chances are you’re competing with Microsoft.” The 1996 BeOS vs. NeXTSTEP bakeoff story as t...
A Short Story About SCSI (1991)
May 08, 2024 07:00 - 5 minutes - 6.89 MBA short story about long cables. Original text by Steve Riggins. Macworld San Francisco 1999: Steve Jobs pokes fun at legacy parallel SCSI-1 versus FireWire.
Should Sun Microsystems Buy Apple? (1996)
April 21, 2024 07:00 - 15 minutes - 17.4 MBOriginal text from SunWorld, February 1996 by Michael McCarthy and Mark Cappel. This was such a bad idea that in the very same issue it was announced a potential Sun/Apple deal had fallen through. CHM Sun Microsystems Founders Panel in which they discuss close encounters with acquiring Apple. I’m glad Sun didn’t buy Apple because by the turn of the century Sun was in serious trouble. UltraSPARC III was delayed by two years, x86 caught up, the dotcom bust happened, everyone was broke, and...
GlobalTalk Special - O Bolo Mio (1995)
March 21, 2024 07:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBIn Bolo’s world, players form alliances, pilot tanks and command little green men. Original text by Steve Silberman. GlobalTalk Overview, or how to run AppleTalk over TCP/IP around the world. Gursharan Sidhu quote at the end of this episode: “It worked across very large multi-segment networks… Apple’s own corporate network [for example]. You could print on a printer in Sweden from Cupertino, and all those constructs were there [in the 1980s], on shipping products, not in a lab.” GlobalTa...
The History of Be, Inc. (1998)
March 10, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBOriginal text by Henry Bortman. Be’s roller coaster ride from 1990-1998: the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial, Commodore’s Irving Gould, a thirty-mile hike to the sea, headhunting disgruntled Apple employees, and what to do when Apple says you’re not allowed to exhibit at WWDC 1996. Pictures of an AT&T Hobbit BeBox motherboard from ex-Be-er Jean-Baptiste Quéru. Jean-Louis Gassée’s story about having dinner with John Sculley from the 2011 Steve Jobs Legacy event at the Churchill Club. The 1996 Be...
Plan Be (1997)
February 12, 2024 08:00 - 28 minutes - 33 MBOriginal text by Henry Bortman and Jeff Pittelkau, MacUser, January 1997. How does BeOS measure up to System 7.5, and could it have become the next-generation Mac OS? The authors examine why Copland would not have been the crashproof operating system we had all hoped for. Official BeOS demo video from … I’ll have to guess 1998, the year the x86 port of BeOS shipped. An extremely rudimentary port of Cinema 4D is shown. Maxon appears to have dropped all plans to complete their BeOS port of ...
The Wizards of Be, Inc. (1997)
January 11, 2024 08:00 - 25 minutes - 29 MBOriginal text by Dave Mark, MacTech, January 1997. Bryan Cantrill on interviewing at Be, Inc. (perhaps with Dominic Giampolo?) and inadvertently buying a VFS architecture at the Be bankruptcy auction. Apple wouldn’t have gone OS shopping if Copland had worked out. CodeWarrior for BeOS was a thing. Naturally, IBM made the most use of their System Object Model. Menu Tasking Enabler for MacOS might have been preserved on MacFormat cover disc #4. BeOS, it’s The OS (5038). (Try it in a mir...
The Desktop Christmas '94 (1994)
December 07, 2023 08:00 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBOriginal text by David Pogue, Macworld December 1994. Watch the CD3 compact disc storage and retrieval box in action. Photos of the salami-like CD3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The product lasted into the 2000s and the companion DiscGear website is still up, featuring no less than three CD3-like units on its front page. Decorate your classic Mac desktop: Holiday Lights, Xmas Lights, Snow. YesterYear’s Mac Games review of “After Dark: The Simpsons Collection”. LabelOnce is still around, having wisel...
Trouble In Finder City (1992)/The Hard Sell (1995)
November 26, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBSimplicity, sophistication, oversimplification, and At Ease. I rant about the usability of modern Apple software, Steven Levy rants about the complexity of the Mac and the oversimplified environment provided by At Ease, and Josef Morell rants about the damage At Ease does to first impressions of the Macintosh in retail channels. Original text by Steven Levy, Macworld December 1992 and Josef Morell, MacFormat March 1995. datagubbe.se laments the usability of modern desktop computer softwa...
Life At Apple (1991)
November 10, 2023 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25 MBOriginal text by Erfert Fenton, Macworld September 1991. Roger Heinen “engineers are a dime a dozen” story from episode 40 of the Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs Podcast. Engineer interviews from “Apple of the Future”, preserved and uploaded by The Byte Cellar. Apple campus decor in the 1980s was pretty ugly, though less so in the cube farms. A significant chunk of Apple’s internal TV studio productions have been uploaded to YouTube by the Apple VHS Archive and The ReDiscovered F...
Review: Infini-D 2.5.1 and StrataVision 3D 2.6.3 (1994)
October 20, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutes - 14 MBOriginal text by Deke McClelland, Macworld February 1994. RayDream Designer and Infini-D merged into a new product called Carrara, which is still marketed by Daz3D. It must still be Carbon under the hood since it only runs on macOS 10.14 and earlier. 27 years is a pretty good life for a personal computer software product. StrataVision 3D evolved into Strata Design 3D CX. Myst was a walking (spinning?) advertisement for StrataVision, and was featured in at least one Strata ad. Alien Soup ...
SK8ing Down the Wrong Path (2019)
October 08, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes - 9.16 MBQuickDraw GX, meet unfinished developer tool prototype. Original text by Cameron Esfahani who is still at Apple today, ~30 years later. Chris Espinosa replied to the original: “Cam, with this thread you got maybe 500 people interested in SK8, which is a lot more than Jim Spohrer and I ever did.” Someone resurrected the SK8 section of www.research.apple.com as it stood in 1997. Download SK8, the source code, look at a screenshot of it, or read the user guide. In addressing QuickDraw’s d...
Basal Gangster - A/UX: The Long View (2010)
September 08, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 45.7 MBWhy didn’t Apple’s Unix-based A/UX become the Mac OS of the future? Original text by Basal Gangster. UniSoft mentions A/UX exactly once in the darker recesses of its website. A/UX 1.0 demo on the Computer Chronicles, 1989. Demo starts at ~19 minutes. Watch the announcement of Carbon at WWDC 1998. Sean Parent describes how Carbon almost didn’t happen, a classic case of sticking to your guns until Steve Jobs adopts your idea. The fight over multiuser features and authentication requirem...
A/UX and MachTen: Serious UNIX for the Macintosh (1993)
August 20, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes - 29.1 MBIf an IBM PC can see the light, why not a Mac? Original text by Joel Snyder, SunWorld July 1993. This review calls A/UX “complete”, but that’s meaningless until another Vancouverite demonstrates that it is possible to port Doom (sans audio) to it! The moment it worked. The usual emulators won’t run A/UX since it requires an MMU. You’ll need Shoebill (abandoned by the developer now that he works at Apple) or QEMU’s Quadra 800 emulation. Watch someone else suffer so you don’t have to: netf...
1988: Apple's Year In Review (1989)
August 01, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes - 20.3 MBThe Macintosh’s year in review for 1988: some reached milestones, some threw stones, and some wished they’d stayed at home. Original text by the late Charles Seiter, Macworld, January 1989. Macworld: In Memoriam. Charles was just 58 when he passed. If you ever spotted a heavy math, science, or programming and development tool-related article in Macworld, you could be certain to find Charles’ name nearby. I believe this particular article was, unfortunately, his only excursion into humorous...
Review: HyperCard 1.0 (1988)
July 01, 2023 07:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBSometimes it’s difficult to envision what a new category of products will be used for as Apple’s marketing department discovered. Jeff Walden takes an extremely database-centric view of HyperCard in Macworld, April 1988, so I hope he found Activision’s Reports! utility. ADDmotion, a VideoWorks/Director/Flash-like animation extension for HyperCard, is a ton of fun to play with. Bill Atkinson mentions developing new sorting and compression algorithms (1h24m57s) to “achieve [performance he d...
MultiFinder 1.0 Review and Commentary (1988)
June 08, 2023 07:00 - 21 minutes - 20.2 MBMultitasking on the Macintosh evolves beyond Switcher. MultiFinder review by Bruce Webster, Macworld, April 1988. Commentary by Jerry Borrell, Macworld, January 1988. Correction: Declaring an application’s memory requirements through a SIZE -1 resource began in the days of Switcher. (source: MacTech Spring 1989) Charismatic IBM evangelist David Barnes selling OS/2 Steve Jobs-style at a 1993 meeting of the HAL-PC Users Group. David’s presentation is in the second half of the meeting. Memo...
folklore.org: Apple II Mouse Card (1981)
June 01, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.8 MBA spontaneous port of MacPaint to the Apple II. No vertical blanking interrupt? No problem! Original text by Andy Hertzfeld at folklore.org.
Andy Hertzfeld on QuickerDraw (1988)
May 08, 2023 07:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBAndy discusses micro-optimization and the earliest days of colour graphics on the Macintosh. Original text by Chester Peterson Jr., MacTutor, June 1988. This Adobe Illustrator ‘88 instructional video gives you a sense of how slow 8-bit colour was back then. Illustrator ‘88 shipped in 1987, well before the advent of QuickerDraw, but I wonder whether drawing was intentionally slowed down for this video to create a more aesthetically pleasing result. How about that cold digital Fairlight CMI...
Landon Dyer - Eject, Eject! (1992)
May 01, 2023 07:00 - 5 minutes - 5.59 MBLandon Dyer on the joys of subversive sticker placement at Apple’s then new Infinite Loop campus. Original text from dadhacker.com. The button in question, photographed in 2013.
Behind Locked Doors - A Tour of Apple's Factory (1990)
April 02, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes - 25.7 MBA tour of Apple’s Fremont and Singapore factories. Remember when we used to manufacture stuff in North America? Written by Cheryl England Spencer, Macworld, September 1990. Cheryl was also the founder of MacAddict. Unfortunately Cheryl passed away in September 2022. :-( We miss you, Cheryl. Obligatory MacAddict attitude clip from Macworld Boston 1996. Watch Cheryl giving us a tour of her office at MacAddict in 1997 in 160x120 Road Pizza (QuickTime 1.0 “Apple Video Codec”) quality. Jean-L...
They're No Angels (1990)
April 01, 2023 07:00 - 7 minutes - 8.85 MBA prison Macintosh Users Group gives as good as it gets at the Massachussetts Corrections Institute, Lancaster Prerelease Facility (1x 5-star review). Written by Deborah Branscum, Conspicuous Consumer, Macworld April 1990. A clue for those who missed the April Fools joke. Music from the Myst soundtrack. Looking for the most detailed lore-rich playthrough of Myst, Riven, etc. ever? dilandau3000 has you covered. Did you know there’s a VR version of Myst now? Yes, climbing up and down ladd...
The Desktop Critic - Mac OS 8 and Why It's Great (1997)
March 03, 2023 08:00 - 12 minutes - 11.9 MB“The gang at Apple Computer does its best work when its collective back is against the wall.” Oh 1997 David Pogue, if only you knew. :-( Written by David Pogue, The Desktop Critic, Macworld December 1997. Clip of Apple’s Jim Gable talking about Mac OS 8 “Tempo” from the 1997 OS Strategy VHS tape, feat. cheesy music.
The Iconoclast - Is That All There Is? (1992)
February 03, 2023 08:00 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBAfter the System 7 switch, some users are wondering what got into them. Written by Steven Levy, The Iconoclast, Macworld May 1992. Stanford University System 7.0 segment from The Computer Chronicles. Randall Rothenberg (whom I’m sure is reading this 31 years later) should check out System Picker, which eases the confusion of maintaining multiple System Folders by automatically blessing and unblessing them at your command. Watch Macworld Tips & Tricks columnist Lon Poole take you on a to...
folklore.org: Mea Culpa (2004)
January 07, 2023 08:00 - 10 minutes - 9.52 MBRevisiting the design decisions and constraints behind the original Macintosh 128. Original text by Andy Hertzfeld at folklore.org. Steven Levy on “unauthorized” modifications to the original Mac: “A Shut and Open Case” (PDF, MP3). Dan Winkler (yes, that Dan Winkler) relaying his experience with a serial port Tecmar MacDrive hard disk in 1984. Dog Cow: “All About MFS: The Macintosh File System”. Dog Cow’s detailed discussion of early Macintosh hard drive systems including the Tecmar Ma...
Verbatim - Interview with Andy Hertzfeld (1987)
December 11, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBIn an interview conducted shortly before the dawn of the Macintosh II, Andy Hertzfeld talks about product design, NeXT, leadership, PostScript, designing products for the broadest possible audience, Windows 1.0, copyrighted code, graphics accelerators, unsung heroes of the Mac team, growing up, and Macintosh Servant. Original text from Macworld, February 1987. Unison World/Print Shop lawsuit (casetext) clip from the 1986 “Second Hand Computers” episode of the Computer Chronicles. Early d...
Landon Dyer - Sorry I Almost Got You Fired (1989)
November 24, 2022 08:00 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBHow the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, GNU Emacs, and the Macintosh Programmer’s Workshop converged. Written by Landon Dyer at dadhacker.com in 2009. Gary Davidian quote from his CHM Oral History (video 1, 2; transcript 1, 2). Some MPW history, some funny MPW error messages, an overview of the famous Projector revision control system, and MPW’s funky About Box animation. I miss About Boxes. :-(
Landon Dyer - Flash Memories (1992)
November 04, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.48 MBOf Newton MessagePad data store resilience and Mars Rover reboot loops. Written by Landon Dyer at dadhacker.com in 2004. Excerpt of Steve Capps (ex-Newton) and Donna Dubinsky, former CEO of Palm and ex-Claris VP, from the Computer History Museum’s Computing In Your Pocket panel discussion.
Chris MacAskill - Steve Jobs, AutoCAD, and Focus Groups (1991)
October 18, 2022 07:00 - 14 minutes - 13.8 MBIf Unix workstations were cars, what kind of cars would they be? Written by Chris MacAskill at cake.co (defunct, 2021). Watch a bakeoff between Sun’s DevGuide and NeXTSTEP, InterfaceBuilder, and Objective-C. Apple’s 45-minute video pushing Macintosh Quadras to engineers. “Now with a Macintosh user interface, [AutoCAD] Release 11…” … no longer feels like a hastily-ported DOS product! The complete Bill Gates talk from 1989 at the University of Waterloo’s Computer Science Club. John Walke...
Conspicuous Consumer - Smart Company, Foolish Choices (1992)
September 20, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutes - 17.3 MBDeborah Branscum’s Conspicuous Consumer column puts Apple’s active matrix LCD defect apathy under the microscope. At 77dpi in pure black and white–no greyscale, and no RGB subpixels–you definitely noticed dead pixels! Original text from Macworld, July 1992. Dead pixels are nothing new today, but they presented a novel public relations problem in 1991 as active matrix LCDs began to appear in top-of-the-line mass market laptops. Apple, of course, chose to keep completely silent unless asked...
Review: Envisio Notebook Display Adapter (1992)
September 01, 2022 07:00 - 10 minutes - 8.84 MBHello listeners who found me via Michael Tsai! David Pogue reviews a smoking hot new video output product for the PowerBook 100/140/170. And you thought your laptop-and-projector troubles were bad… Original text from Macworld, September 1992. Very dark photo of an Envisio Notebook Display Adapter in the wild. Macworld reviews the state of LCD projection pads in 1993, from the days before integrated LCD projectors existed.
PowerBook 100 Series Introduction (1991)
August 01, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes - 24.4 MBApple’s apology for the gigantic expensive Macintosh Portable. Original text from Macworld, December 1991. Audio clips courtesy of The Unofficial Apple VHS Archive’s collection of Apple User Group Connection tapes, which covered Apple’s PowerBook 1xx launch event for employees in 1991. Got all that? Television commercials: it attracts mates somehow, it runs everything in 4MB of RAM somehow, and the predecessor to the Yao Ming/Verne Troyer 12-inch PowerBook G4 ad. Apple telling you how gr...
Outbound and Gagged (1991)
July 01, 2022 07:00 - 18 minutes - 15 MBOriginal text from Macworld, February 1991, page 73. Macworld published a correction confirming the Outbound 2000 series was indeed FCC-certified for home use. If you’re just gagging to experience the IsoPoint/TrackBar, you can buy one today from Contour Design! HCI guru Bill Buxton on the IsoPoint. Contour Design on YouTube is all RollerMouse, all the time. Ad for the Outbound 2000-series notebooks, and another where they push the Outbound’s upgradability advantage to PowerBook shoppers...
Review: Outbound Laptop System (1990)
June 16, 2022 07:00 - 9 minutes - 8.05 MBFrom the days before the hot-selling PowerBook 100 series, David Pogue reviews a sleeker, less expensive alternative to Apple’s 1989 Macintosh Portable. Original text from Macworld, September 1990. Enjoy some gorgeous photos of the original Outbound Laptop System from applerooter.net.
Review: NuTek Duet Macintosh Clone (1994)
May 20, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutes - 12.3 MBNuTek’s years of labour finally bear fruit–kind of. The trail of NuTek coverage stops cold after early 1994. We don’t know exactly what happened but this review provides some strong hints. Original text from Macworld, February 1994. The review states you can toggle between the Duet’s Mac and PC modes from the front panel. Nothing is labelled “Mac/PC” in the advertisements. Did they change the silkscreen for production models? Wouldn’t it be funny if they just wired up the turbo button or ...
Send In The Clones (1991)
April 23, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 30.8 MBNuTek’s plan for Macintosh World Domination: a clean room implementation of the ROMs and System 6, cheap hardware, and enough investor money to survive the inevitable legal assault from Apple. Macworld speculated a Macintosh clone with a 68030 CPU, colour monitor and hard disk could cost just $600USD at a time when lowly Macintosh LC systems sold for $2700USD. The faster 32-bit data path IIsi sold for $3700 in complete configurations, and the more expandable IIci, $6,000USD and up. Origin...
What Comes Together Falls Apart (1985)
April 16, 2022 07:00 - 6 minutes - 5.57 MBInfoWorld (13-May-1985) profiles Andy Hertzfeld one year after his departure from Apple. Original text by Kevin Strehlo.
folklore.org: PCB Aesthetics/Diagnostic Port (1981)
April 01, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutes - 13.5 MBSteve Jobs says of the Mac’s logic board “The lines are too close together!” while Burrell Smith surreptitiously adds some means of expansion. Original text from folklore.org: PC Board Aesthetics, Diagnostic Port. Jef Raskin: Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer Jerry Manock/Jef Raskin/Bill Atkinson “convection enhancement device” quote from “The Macintosh at 20” panel hosted at Macworld Boston 2004. Fiennes on management’s tentative request for iPhone motherboard layout...
NeXT Cube Serial Number AA001032 (1993)
March 01, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes - 28.1 MBBurn a NeXT Cube, they said. It’ll be easy, they said. Original text from Simson Garfinkel. Simson maintains a complete NeXTWorld archive on his website. Photos from the actual burning. Rich Page quote from Part 1 of his CHM Oral History. CHM interview with Dan Ruby, NeXTWORLD Magazine’s driving force and editor-in-chief.
Steve Hayman - NeXT's Black Monday (1993)/The Merger (1996)
February 05, 2022 08:00 - 19 minutes - 15.9 MBSteve Hayman and diskzero recall the death and unlikely rebirth of NeXT. Original text from blog.hayman.net (Remembering NeXT’s Black Monday, Apple & Next 25 Years Ago Today). Additional text from diskzero on the orange website. Thanks to thj for the submission! Audio clips from these interviews packed with insight into Apple’s resurgence in the 2000s: Avie Tevanian: CHM interview video (1, 2) and transcript (1, 2) Jon Rubinstein: CHM interview video (1, 2) and transcript NeXTEVNT 2015...
A Suit In Time (1992)
January 13, 2022 08:00 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBSheldon Breiner (1936-2019) gives Apple a taste of its own medicine. Sheldon’s bio at breiner.com. Stanford Alumni Magazine on Sheldon’s quest to find a giant 3,000 year-old Olmec head. Yes, that’s the late Gerry Davis mentioned in Triumph of the Nerds. Gerry Davis on his relationship with Gary Kildall in his own words. Not very much ado about Symantec’s Bedrock: [1, 2, 3, 4] Original website for Altura Software’s Mac2Win framework. Lee Lorenzen CHM interview covering Xerox PARC, Digita...
Don Melton - Memories of Steve (2013)
December 13, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43.6 MBDon Melton, former WebKit and Safari team lead at Apple, recalls some close encounters with Steve Jobs. Original text from Don’s website. Don did a wonderful interview about his computer journey before, during, and after heading the Safari project on episode 11 of the Debug podcast. Steve Jobs Quote Compilation Index WWDC 2004: “Our competitors buy the panels we reject” All Things D 2007, Bill Gates: “He’s really pursued that with incredible taste and elegance… I’d do a lot to have Ste...
Wise Guy - Give and You Might Receive (1994)
November 24, 2021 08:00 - 16 minutes - 15.7 MBGuy suggests Christmas gifts for figures in the Macintosh world circa 1993. Apple Board of Directors interview clip from the Macworld Boston 1997 keynote, the most depressing Apple keynote on record excluding every smarmy self-congratulatory Tim Cook keynote ever. Hard Drive by David Pogue is out of print but available from used booksellers. Original text from Macworld, January 1994.
Interview with Chris Espinosa (2000)
October 30, 2021 07:00 - 46 minutes - 37.4 MBChris Espinosa on… discovering computers in high school the Homebrew Computer Club unusual user group personalities “after school Apple II demo time” at Apple headquarters the mad dash to rewrite the Apple II manual the product documentation conundrum the open secret about the LaserWriter driver in early 1985 how Caroline Rose and others drove simplicity in Macintosh software development Original text from the “Making the Macintosh” exhibit at Stanford University Library. Original ...
folklore.org: Calculator Construction Set (1982)
October 29, 2021 07:00 - 3 minutes - 3.19 MBChris Espinosa tries to build a Steve Jobs-approved calculator. Original text from folklore.org. My favourite classic MacOS calculator was ProCalc. While trying to find ProCalc, I found PowerCalc by John Mauro who went on to co-invent Gorilla Glass, used in every iPhone and iPad.
folklore.org: Do It (1982)
October 22, 2021 07:00 - 7 minutes - 6.66 MBTesting software on real world users often yields surprising results. Origin of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines video with Chris Espinosa reading Bruce Tognazzini’s “Apple Presents Apple” user testing post-mortem. Original text from folklore.org.
folklore.org: Inside Macintosh (1982)
October 08, 2021 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MBEarly Macintosh developer documentation had a bit of a rocky start. Caroline Rose also did some technical documentation work for NeXT. Caroline’s website is hosted by Andy Hertzfeld/differnet.com. Outro clip from Joanna Hoffman’s delightful interview with the Computer History Museum which you should at least read through, if only for the story of her sneaking into and out of Russia without official clearance. [video 1/2/3, transcript 1/2/3] Original text from folklore.org.
Adrian Mello - Name That Macintosh (1993)
September 23, 2021 07:00 - 11 minutes - 11.1 MBApple’s marketing poets meet Mercedes-Benz, Latin, and Sylvester Stallone. Original text from Macworld Magazine, August 1993.
Interview with Eric Harslem (1992)
September 03, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBWhich Mac is the current bestseller? Is Apple giving up on industrial design? Why did you screw Quadra 900 customers by introducing the 950 just five months after the 900? Editor-in-Chief of Macworld Jerry Borrell sits down for some questions and answers with Eric Harslem, Apple’s Vice President of Desktop Computers in 1992. Simpler times: an Apple VP discussing future product plans and openly admitting mistakes, in this case with the Mac Portable. You don’t see Tim Cook apologizing for...
Wise Guy - The Akihabara Syndrome (1993)
August 27, 2021 07:00 - 9 minutes - 9.29 MBGuy boils down your Macintosh purchase decision to three choices from Apple’s bloated 1993 product lineup. Apple has arguably suffered from The Ginza Syndrome(tm) since the days of the Apple II. :-) Original text from Macworld Magazine, June 1993.